2.Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton, Richard E Burton (1888)"Well, if I had not my routine established, I should beg off sometimes. ...
So I incline to beg-off. And I not merely beg but I reason. ..."

3.The Epistles to Timothy and Titus by Alfred Edward Humphreys (1895)"18, 'with one consent began to beg off;' Acts xxv. n, 'If I have committed anything
worthy of death I do not beg off from death;' Heb. xii. ..."